The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts.
The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts.
Dr John R. Campbell is a Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has undertaken fieldwork in Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the UK, and has undertaken development-related consultancies in Kenya, Ethiopia and Botswana. In addition to teaching the anthropology of development and the ethnography of Eastern Africa, he teaches courses on legal anthropology. His most recent book is Nationalism, Law and Stateless: Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa (Routledge, 2013).
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List of Tables and Boxes List of Cases List of Case Law Acknowledgements Chapter 1. An anthropological approach to studying the asylum field Chapter 2. The evolution of the British Asylum System Chapter 3. The work of the British Home Office and UK Border Agency Chapter 4. Taking and making refugee claims: The work of immigration caseworkers, interpeters and barristers Chapter 5. The Immigration and Asylum Tribunal and the work of Immigration Judges Chapter 6. The politics of 'permission' and the Court of Appeal Chapter 7. The Kafkaesque experience of asylum seekers Chapter 8. Interest groups, asylum policy and Home Office intransigence Conclusion and Postscript Glossary Bibliography Index
List of Tables and Boxes List of Cases List of Case Law Acknowledgements Chapter 1. An anthropological approach to studying the asylum field Chapter 2. The evolution of the British Asylum System Chapter 3. The work of the British Home Office and UK Border Agency Chapter 4. Taking and making refugee claims: The work of immigration caseworkers, interpeters and barristers Chapter 5. The Immigration and Asylum Tribunal and the work of Immigration Judges Chapter 6. The politics of 'permission' and the Court of Appeal Chapter 7. The Kafkaesque experience of asylum seekers Chapter 8. Interest groups, asylum policy and Home Office intransigence Conclusion and Postscript Glossary Bibliography Index
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